Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 50 Filthy Blood

The Zarro family has expressed their disapproval of your repeated secret meetings with ladies from other families, but you remain unmoved. Your tarnished reputation, ironically, makes you even more popular among the ladies of the three major families. You discover that your wife, Lavinia, is not entirely unaware of your scandalous affairs, yet she still chooses to forgive you, forcing a smile for you.

[You feel no remorse and meet with Teshir again in secret, but your real purpose is to secretly exchange intelligence with him.]

[Teshir tells you that there is indeed a special military force behind the Zarro family. However, they are not conducting inhumane experiments as you have deduced, but rather—space pirates.]

The soldiers of the Zarro family also held the infamous "Karlan Pirates," feared throughout the entire Lost Starfield. They plundered people, but did not sell them to slave traders. With the whereabouts of many inhabited planets unknown, many in the Lost Starfield believed the Karlan Pirates had a cannibalistic appetite, regarding them as terrifying demons and filled with extreme dread.

Tehir deduced that these people were ultimately transported to the Zarro family and then disappeared into the shadows, their whereabouts unknown.

You warned Teshir not to investigate further, and not to mention this information to anyone in the family.

Six months later, you and Teshir failed to escape from the Sky Realm. You then discovered that your distress message to Roger hadn't actually reached him; instead, it had been transmitted to the Zarro family through an illusion. Only then did you realize that everything had always been under the Zarro family's control.

You have recreated the tragic fate of a doomed couple.

[This simulation has ended]

【…】

Hunzhen completed the inheritance smoothly, and his brows relaxed as he looked at the outcome.

Although the Simulator died tragically, his goal had been achieved.

After several simulations of becoming a "scumbag," and through coordinated operations from both inside and outside, Hunzhen entrusted the main intelligence gathering to Teshir, and finally obtained the information he wanted.

"However, I didn't expect the simulator to choose to escape with Teshir this time?"

Originally, after gathering intelligence several times, if they sensed something was wrong, the simulators would run away in advance.

So he didn't think the simulator would die this time.

After all, the simulated human's movements are always very small, and by using gossip to cover it up, the family's higher-ups can't keep an eye on your messes all the time, so the difficulty of taking advantage of the chaos is naturally greatly reduced.

Unfortunately, this time the Sim was either deeply in love or had some kind of mental breakdown. It is estimated that he had too much contact with Teshir and even wanted to elope with his true love. As a result, his family discovered the clues, and they both died in the end.

Otherwise, given this step-by-step operational strategy, with the help of advanced knowledge, it would be very difficult for the Sims to be caught up in the storm and die.

"This time we'll be able to truly get to the heart of the matter."

Hunzhen summarized that he had passed the simulation system's cooldown period through daily practice and started a new simulation.

[...(Omitted: The process of infiltrating the Zarro family, completing the marriage, and getting through the initial stages)...]

[Having chosen not to continue in the Genius Battle and having broken through ahead of schedule, you have repeatedly expressed your thoughts within the family: a rejection of the weak and a yearning for power.]

[In the third year, despite being invincible at the cosmic level with your sixth-order life level, you have not been promoted to the position of one of the twelve commanders.]

[Zarro secretly inquired about your views on space pirates, and he was very pleased with your ideas such as "survival of the fittest," "there is a reason for their long-term existence," and "we should not be overly critical, but look at the essence."]

[It's clear that your answers to the subsequent detailed questions still satisfied him. He finally told you that you passed the test and revealed a corner of the Zaro family's secrets: the "Kalan Pirate Gang" is the force they secretly control. And the plundering of people is for the sake of achieving a higher level of evolution.]

You've joined a pirate crew and begun a life of plundering.

Perhaps, at first you were forced into it, forced to do it to avoid Zarro finding out and eliminating you, even if you didn't want to. Perhaps you didn't expect life to be so bloody and cruel, but from the day you soiled your hands, there was no turning back.

[In the sixth year, based on your outstanding performance in recent years, Zaro declares that you have truly become the core of the family, and exposes yet another dark corner of the family to you.]

The so-called Filthy Blood originates from the many lives that were abducted. They were forced to fuse with the corrupted Void Crystals, causing their bloodlines to mutate, and they then became the raw materials for creating Filthy Blood.

The so-called advanced and top-grade materials are the tainted blood of "geniuses" who survived after fusing with contaminated high-purity Void Crystals, and "top-grade geniuses" who survived after being injected with S-grade drugs.

[Your demonstrated potential is enough to reach the Domain Lord level, and your values ​​and actions have already gained Zaro's approval. That's why Zaro revealed this secret to you and promised you that if you can break through to the Domain Lord level, you will be qualified to share the "real fruits" with the three brothers.]

Faced with the prisoners' empty gazes, your anger cannot be vented, for you are now one of the perpetrators.

A voice keeps echoing in your mind: the high-quality raw materials you've been planning for are now in front of you, but can you really "use" them without any psychological burden?

You ultimately did not choose "Use".

In the seventh year, you attempted to briefly escape the pirate crew and denounce the crimes of the three major families on Sky Realm to Roger. Your scheme was exposed, and although you successfully delivered the information, you faced a desperate counterattack from the three families, ultimately leading to your demise.

[This simulation has ended]

Please select the inheritance direction.

[1. Material Inheritance (Life Level Upgraded to Cosmic Level Ninth Order)]

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[2. Soul Inheritance (Slightly improved understanding of spatial laws; through pain and self-questioning, your will has been tempered, and your consciousness strength has increased to the third level of the cosmic level; other experiences...)]

3. Forgo the profits from this simulation.

"Oh, this..."

Staring blankly at the simulation record, Hunzhen was speechless for a long time.

Some of his guesses were eventually confirmed, but looking at those explanations that were clearly just cold words, he couldn't feel happy at all.

He suddenly scratched his scalp in frustration, even pulling out a handful of hair with excessive force.

"I choose option two."

Finally, he sighed.

"From now on, we'll have to abandon this route..."

It was something we had no choice but to give up.

Hunzhen knew that the simulated human could no longer explore the Void Realm Star and obtain the massive spatial insights he had initially hoped for.

Less than ten days had passed since Berlan launched the "purge".

But the real trouble isn't the failure of this small goal.

It seems that Hunzhen will have to accept the fact that there is no hope of breaking into the top 1,000 list in the short term.

(End of this chapter)